TollingSteady

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by TollingSteady 5y ago
I'd be very interested in reading more about high-meat countries having lower cancer. That contradicts my current understanding, but I'd definitely be willing to revise my position if it turns out meat isn't involved in col
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
I've still seen no evidence that farmed animals (those that produce commercially viable quantities of meat/milk) do work to improve ecosystems. As far as I can tell, even in the best case scenario, they consume intense amounts o
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
This is fascinating to me. Are you worried about your foraged food being contaminated with car emissions / herbicides / etc? How do you find these produce discounts? You're definitely winning the sustainability award, if thi
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
I definitely think his use of renewable energy is a great step forward. The trouble is that he seems to keep a lot of ruminants for the amount of land he has. Ruminants produce very potent greenhouse gases that are not offset by sequestrati
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
The problem is that this balanced system you bring up does not seem to exist for commercial meat. Having animals like modern broiler chickens are simply an environmentally wasteful way to get calories. Supplemental feeding of commercially g
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
> In consequence, I need to buy less and thus emissions can be reduced. You're not taking into account that, by virtue of being an animal taking in oxygen and creating carbon dioxide / other pollutants, the chicken itself is co
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
How are you drawing this moral distinction? People find visiting zoos "useful" for education and promoting habitat conservation. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your conclusion, I just don't see how you got there.
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
Part of the problem when discussing greenhouse gas emissions is that we're not only talking about carbon dioxide, but also all carbon dioxide equivalents. For example, one molecule of methane (CH4) contains the same amount of carbon [t
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
Thanks for the link! This was definitely interesting to dig into. It looks like the farms' claim for carbon offset is sequestration. I don't doubt that they do this, but sequestration is only able to store a maximum of 20-60% of c
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
Implying that animal agriculture is more sustainable is false, unless you're able to back this up with actual data. 80% of Amazon rainforest deforestation has been driven by cattle farming ( https://www.washingtonpost.com&#x2
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
You actually make a great point here, though I disagree with your exact conclusions. The good news is that there are plenty of plant-based dog diets that meet all AAFCO nutrition standards. A quick google search will bring these up. As dogs
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
I'd imagine the Great Plains had a much higher plant:animal ratio than commercial animal agriculture will be able to achieve. Plus the animals involved were native species adapted to the environment, not imported animals bred to maximi
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
I grew up eating 3 eggs every morning and drinking chocolate milk daily. My very favorite food (and the first thing I'd order at any restaurant) was steak. I apologize if I've made it seem like I have some personal stake in plants
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
Setting aside any ecological/moral argument, this kind of diet is high in class-2 carcinogens implicated in heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. What did your vegetarian diet look like?
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
If we cut subsidies and internalized the externalities (i.e. heavy carbon tax on all meat used to offset the GHG emissions), it would be theoretically feasible to make meat carbon neutral. I'd imagine taking these minimum steps toward
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
I completely agree, crop farming as it currently exists trades a lot of long term sustainability and ecological responsibility in exchange for high output. However the problem is that the large majority of these monoculture crops go to ani
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
The source I cite for only 20-60% of GHG emissions being sequestered includes grass-fed beef. It seems like buying grass-fed beef is still environmentally unsustainable. Your claims don't seem to match any of the evidence I've see
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
I completely agree, natural habitats with native flora and fauna tend to settle into balanced ecosystems. As far as I can tell, that's not what you're arguing for, though, as that is not at all what modern animal agriculture is si
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by TollingSteady 5y ago
Animal agriculture produces more carbon waste than the entire transportation sector. "Regenerative" animal agriculture is a myth, as fields can only sequester a small percent of the carbon emissions produced by ruminants, and they